Is this the worst non-sexual school abuse ever?

I had to read this several times at several places to believe it. Here’s the story in an aptly-named nutshell. At a Hartford, Connecticut magnet school that is associated with a private college – aha, academe rears its ugly head – the teacher took the students on a 4-day field trip – uh oh – to teach them the horrors of slavery. Listen to this garbage:

From the bountiful annals of public-school stupidity comes this mind-blowing allegation: a Hartford, Conn. magnet school sent a 12-year-old black girl and her classmates on a field trip where the instructors held a slavery reenactment, chased the kids through the woods and repetitively called them the n-word.

The magnet school notes on its website that it enjoys a partnership with nearby Trinity College, which “provides a variety of academic programs for students.”

The girl and her parents claim the reenactment happened on the third night of a four-day trip to Nature’s Classroom in in Charlton, Mass. She and her classmates had to pretend their instructors were slave masters. They were told to pretend to pick cotton at one point. At another point, they had to imagine they were aboard a slave ship

“I went into a dark room where I had to sit on my bottom with my knees together; my legs fell asleep and were hurting,” the girl said. “We were jammed together tightly touching each other. While in the dark room, I was told by the instructor that we will go to the bathroom on each other, and some of us might throw up.”

She was also warned that “sharks were following the ship” and that she “may have to dance to entertain them.”

Other things the instructors allegedly told the 12-year-old black girl and her classmates include “Nigger if you can read, there is a problem,” “You don’t have any rights, we own you” and “How dare you look those dark eyes at me, I am higher than you.”